SQuaD meets QR.N

About 90 par­ti­ci­pan­ts atten­ded the two-day kick-off mee­ting of the joint pro­ject Quantenrepeater.Net (QR.N) at the Phy­sics Cen­ter Bad Hon­nef on 13 and 14 Febru­ary 2025. The mee­ting was kicked off by pro­ject spea­k­er Prof. Dr. Chris­toph Becher, who pre­sen­ted the orga­niza­ti­on and cen­tral goals of QR.N. After a wel­co­me address by Dani­el Beh­rendt from the Bun­des­mi­nis­te­ri­um für Bil­dung und For­schung (BMBF), the heads of the four cen­tral plat­forms “Halb­lei­ter-Quan­ten­punk­te”, “Dia­mant-Farb­zen­tren”, “Ato­me und Ionen” and “Theo­rie” gave detail­ed insights into their achie­ve­ments to date and future rese­arch pro­jects. In addi­ti­on to pre­sen­ting the tech­no­lo­gi­cal advan­ces within the plat­forms, they also dis­cus­sed over­ar­ching syn­er­gies and pos­si­ble inter­faces bet­ween the various approa­ches.

Par­ti­cu­lar focus was pla­ced on the chal­lenges of deve­lo­ping sca­lable Quan­tum Repea­ter Tech­no­lo­gies as well as inno­va­ti­ve approa­ches for opti­mi­zing signal trans­mis­si­on and error cor­rec­tion in Quan­tum Net­works. The next steps for the prac­ti­cal imple­men­ta­ti­on of Quan­tum Repea­ters in real com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on infra­struc­tures were also dis­cus­sed.

Exter­nal pre­sen­ta­ti­ons and exci­ting pos­ter ses­si­ons illus­tra­ted the ver­sa­ti­li­ty of the topic and empha­si­zed the essen­ti­al role of Quan­tum Repea­ters for Quan­tum Net­works and an incre­asing­ly net­work­ed world. After a suc­cessful start, we look for­ward to the next three years of inten­si­ve rese­arch, col­la­bo­ra­ti­on, and inno­va­ti­on in the field of Quan­tum Repea­ters and Quan­tum Net­works.

Pho­to: Phy­sics Cen­ter Bad Hon­nef

Aut­hor of the pho­to: © SQuaD